Healing American Healthcare: A Plan to Provide Quality Care for All, While Saving $1 Trillion a Year

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Healing American Healthcare presents an undeniable case for universal healthcare in the United States. The authors' research, combined with their experience in the United States healthcare system, has given them the expertise to suggest that as a nation we can provide care for all, while reducing our overall cost of care by $1 trillion per year. There's no refuting the fact that the U.S. healthcare system lags far behind those in other developed nations. In Healing American Healthcare, the history of healthcare reform is explored, along with the impact of Obamacare on the problem of the uninsured on our country. It discusses the high cost of pharmaceuticals, hospital care and healthcare insurance and the impact of beauracracy on doctors and patients. This is an obviously unsustainable system, and the authors put forth a plan that would reduce costs, improve quality and create the much needed competition to reduce bureaucracy and clinical waste-resulting in higher-quality care and lower healthcare costs for all Americans. With logical information presented in a way that readers will have no problem gleaning the information they need, it will guide Americans toward making their own informed decisions about the future of healthcare in the United States.

Edward C. Eichhorn, Jr. is an experienced and successful senior executive in the development of medical products and services. He has a bachelor's degree in engineering, and an MBA in Industrial Management. He began his career more than 40 years ago as a medical device product development engineer. During his long career he has been the Director of Research and Development for a kidney dialysis company, helped to found an innovative successful mobile medical testing business, and has been a senior executive for a large chain of medical imaging centers with responsibility for sales, marketing and strategic planning. In 2008 he established the Medilink Consulting Group LLC, where he advises medical societies and commercial clients on marketing and strategic planning projects. He has a long-standing interest in serving his community. He served on his local school board for 12 years, and as a member of the board of trustees at his alma mater, Stevens Institute of Technology, for three years. Dr. Michael Hutchinson is a neurologist and biophysicist. He is senior faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Manhattan, with 30 years of clinical experience. He is certified in neurology and neuroimaging, and is immediate past president of the American Society of Neuroimaging. He holds a PhD in molecular physics and invented parallel MRI in 1987, now the standard for clinical MRI. While a resident at University of Washington he pioneered an approach to status epilepticus - the most lethal form of epilepsy - which is now standard of care in the US. Dr. Hutchinson has a large private practice in Manhattan. In addition, he teaches and conducts research, including fundamental MRI theory and its application to neurodegenerative conditions. He recently published a theory of ultrafast MRI.